1979

As I watched Vladamir Guerrero hit a home ran to extend his hitting streak to 31 games in front of literally dozens of screaming Montreal Expos fans, I could have sworn that I caught a glimpse of outdoorsman extraordinaire Jim Stein. The Steins just bought a home in Montreal, finally putting down some roots after years of spanning the North Atlantic with one foot in Norway and the other in Canada (ouch, my groin!). Jim has his priorities. At age 42 he owns four cabins in the woods but is just now buying a house. Oh, the legacy of the DOC and Cabin & Trail. Jim and his wife, Eli, just added a daughter, Liv, to go along with big brothers Erik and Tor and cheer for their old man in his "old boys" hockey league.

Phenix City, Ala., Little Leaguers face Japan today in the Little League World Series Championship game. It got me wondering how my fraternity bro Dave Dowd was fairing in the deep South outside of Birmingham. Dave, a lawyer for Burr, Forman, and Load, was discussing the seriously flawed process by which the College administration arrived at the decision to render fraternities and sororities coed. Frankly, most of his words were too big for me to understand but clearly Dave feels strongly about maintaining the Greek system and other single-sex social activities. Dave and his wife, Augusta (yes, like the golf course), will be bringing dieir diree kids to our 21st Reunion next June. I don't know. If I had a 14-year-old daughter, I'm not sure I'd want to turn her loose on Dartmouth fraternities.

Phil Odence reminds us that if you just can't wait for next June to come to Dartmouth, join us for a Homecoming mini-reunion (yeah, baby!) Oct. 22-23. Or do what I did last month and rent a Dartmouth cabin. The White Forest is still magnificent but the highlight of the weekend for my kids was smooshing a couple of mice in mousetraps. What do you expect from 12- and 13-year-old boys? Classmate Dr. Lori Arviso Alvord has written a book called The Scalpel and the Silver Bear, recalling her life growing up on a Navajo reservation in New Mexico, her complete cultural (and environmental) shock upon arriving at Dartmouth, and her perseverance to become the first-ever Navajo woman surgeon. "I live between two worlds," Lori writes. "In one of them I am a dispenser of a very technologically advanced Western-style of medicine. In the other, people are healed by songs, herbs, sand paintings, and ceremonies held by firelight in the deep of winter." Lori is the associate dean of student and minority affairs at Dartmouth and is raising two children and still performing surgery one to three days a week.

Lastly, Jeffrey and I are looking for fresh minds to take over this column next summer when our term expires. Step up to the plate and get involved with your classmates. Otherwise Jeffrey and I will inflict pain.

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